Side-by-side comparison of Falcon H1 34B (TII · UAE) and Hy3-preview (Tencent) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Falcon H1 34B is rated conditional; Hy3-preview is blocked. They part ways on licence: Falcon H1 34B is "Falcon-LLM", Hy3-preview is "Tencent Hy Community".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional TII's hybrid Transformer+Mamba family that supersedes Falcon 180B. 18 languages including Arabic, strong benchmarks (MMLU 84, HumanEval 87). Licence is the Falcon-LLM License (not Apache 2.0) — commercial use permitted with attribution and acceptable-use terms; verify clauses for your deployment. | Blocked Per the Tencent Hy Community License Agreement (Sections 1(l) and 5(c)), the licence's defined Territory excludes the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea, and licensees are expressly prohibited from using, distributing or displaying the model or its outputs outside that Territory. Under those terms the weights are not deployable for EU users or workloads, regardless of architecture quality. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-04-28 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Falcon-LLM | Tencent Hy Community |
| Commercial use | Yes | EU territory excluded |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | UAE | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 42/100 |
| Speed | — | 85 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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